Hilary Ann Swank (born July 30, 1974) is an American actress and film producer. She first became known in 1992 for her role on the television series Camp Wilder and made her film debut with a minor role in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992). She then had her breakthrough for starring as Julie Pierce in The Next Karate Kid (1994), the fourth installment of The Karate Kid franchise, and as Carly Reynolds on the eighth season of Beverly Hills, 90210 (1997–1998). Swank came to international recognition for her performances as Brandon Teena, a transgender man, in Kimberly Peirce's Boys Don't Cry (1999), and as Maggie Fitzgerald, an aspiring boxer, in Clint Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby (2004). Both of her performances earned her critical acclaim, and she earned numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, two Critics' Choice Movie Awards and a Screen Actors Guild Award. She was named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 20...
Million Dollar Baby
2004
Heartwood
1998
The Concert for New York City
2001
The Hunt
2020
Freedom Writers
2007
Conviction
2010
The Audition
2000
Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
2013
55 Steps
2018
The Core
2003
The Next Karate Kid
1994
New Year's Eve
2011
Insomnia
2002
Logan Lucky
2017
P.S. I Love You
2007
The Gift
2000
What They Had
2018
Fatale
2020
Birds of America
2008
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
1992
The Black Dahlia
2006
The Sleepwalker Killing
1997
Ordinary Angels
2024
The Resident
2011
I Am Mother
2019
Amelia
2009
The Homesman
2014
The Reaping
2007
Terror in the Family
1996
Boys Don't Cry
1999
11:14
2004
Disclosure
2020
Born to Fight
2005
...So Goes the Nation
2006
Spark: A Space Tail
2016
Dying to Belong
1997
Iron Jawed Angels
2004
Sometimes They Come Back... Again
1996